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Byline: James Chapman

COMPUTER games are to get new cinema-style age warnings to protect children from graphic images of sex and violence.

Ministers will tomorrow give the goahead to the first strict and legallybinding classification system for video games.

The move follows growing concern about the desensitising influence of unsuitable digital material on a generation of youngsters.

Culture Minister Margaret Hodge is understood to be ready to accept recommendations from television psychologist Dr Tanya Byron, who conducted a review for the Government.

Ministers believe too little is currently being done to regulate games.

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